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Urbana Civilian Police Review Board wrestles with 2020 data, complaint process and taser review backlog
Summary
At an April 23 working session the Urbana Civilian Police Review Board reviewed a draft six‑year annual report and debated whether to treat 2020 as an outlier, how to present demographics, complaint and suspension processes, chart types, and whether to change the ordinance’s suspension rule; staff reported a taser review backlog and the board set a plan to finalize a near‑final draft for a May 13 vote.
The Urbana Civilian Police Review Board spent the bulk of its April 23 meeting in a line‑by‑line working session on its draft annual report covering roughly six years of complaints and appeals, debating how to present data, whether to highlight 2020 as an outlier, accessibility of the complaint process, and how to handle taser display/discharge reviews.
A member who revised the draft said she expanded the history section, "I added the incident about Kurt Yord," to reflect community organizing and later reauthorizations, and the board debated whether to retain that level of detail or shorten the history for readability. Members discussed moving recommendations either inline under relevant data or grouped at the end; some argued in‑context recommendations make more sense, while others preferred a cleaner separation between objective data and policy suggestions.
Board members repeatedly flagged 2020 as an outlier due to…
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